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Anonymous wrote:Suburban people have too much time on their hands.

It is part of mommy wars. Shams do it to working women to make a point.

Actually, in our neighborhood it's clicky SAHMs that want to prove how they all think they fit in and how they think others don't.. ha- at this point it;s just like 4 people doing it.. more power to them ..

Are those SAHMs with arthritis?

Let me google that for you.. but since that may to much- here is a link defining this..

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=clicky

You AND the person who wrote that in the urban dictionary are stupid. The word is cliquey, an adjective from the noun clique. Misspelling it does not make it a new urban word, it just makes it....misspelled.

It is something that I find annoying, but my son does really get a kick out of it, so we participate anyway.

It's huge in my Arlington neighborhood. We have at least 1-5 kids per almost every house. The kids are SOOO into it. They try to figure out who got them...they go on reconaissance. It's pretty much run entirely by the elementary school kids with just about zero parental input.

I layout the xeroxed signs---any used semi-small bag we have lying around, our halloween bucket is filled with candy I don't like--so kids throw some pieces in a bag and go. The extent of it---me being yelled at to duck behind a recycling bin so I don't "out" them.

We don't discriminate...this is not a 'clique' thing like somebody in this thread suggested--wtf?...oh--and I have a full-time job too (not that it matters).

Anonymous wrote:I booZed my neighbors. Bottle of wine and vodka with tonic.

okay finally 5 pages in something i'm down with!

Anonymous wrote:What neighborhoods do all of you Booers live in?

Montgomery County
(in a neighborhood that LOVES Halloween)

Loudoun County. You need not ask

What neighborhoods do all of you Booers live in?

Anonymous wrote:OP here... I wish it were putting candy in a paper bag. Here, in my hood, it requires buying crap at Targret, making a color copy of the boo sheet, along with candy, and then finding a house that hasn't already been booed... Oh, and on my street you are supposed to boo two houses. Grrrr.

Don't do all that. Just do a black and white copy. Give candy. End of story. Just do one house if you want to. You are putting way too much thought into this.

Anonymous wrote:But how are parents OK with eating food items left by someone they do not know which may or may not be properly wrapped - that just seems so risky to me.

Our neighborhood gives out wrapped candy. Store bought.

Anonymous wrote:Try rephrasing when you are sober.

For realz.

I thought it was me who needed to get sober. Lol.

OP, please rephrase this....

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Anonymous wrote:All you have to do is not participate.

And have the neighborhood SAHMs scratch your kids off the list for invites to do fun stuff because your family isn't "friendly." Don't tell me this kind of activity isn't used as a test...

This makes no sense. How is anybody supposed to know whether or not you set out treat bags anonymously?

You're supposed to print out a cutesy sign and put it in the window

http://christmas.organizedhome.com/crafts/halloween-boo/youve-been-booed-print-boo-poem-sign

You put the sign in your window if YOU have been Booed so others don't Boo you again. You do not indicate if you have Booed anyone.

Yes. Even if you don't care, someone gives you stuff and you don't put a sign up, that person is likely to consider you a spoilsport. Kids dropping a paper bag full of candy on your doorstep aren't likely to care, but the people who make things like this: http://www.pinterest.com/hilliardg/you-ve-been-boo-d probably will, and resent you if you don't play along.

But how are parents OK with eating food items left by someone they do not know which may or may not be properly wrapped - that just seems so risky to me.

Anonymous wrote:Interesting thread..... I was following it because I never heard of this and wanted to start it where I live but I have noticed signs on people's doors. They might be Boo signs. Now I feel left out.

1. It is still early in the booing game.
2. you don't have to wait to be booed.

Interesting thread..... I was following it because I never heard of this and wanted to start it where I live but I have noticed signs on people's doors. They might be Boo signs. Now I feel left out.

I don't think it's all that bad at all. Our neighborhood doesn't do it but friends' neighborhoods do and most of them work, so certainly not just sah moms. If you don't want to be part of it, don't. No one is going to kill you.